It is generally felt by those close to the technology and supporting environment that COBOL has a part to play in a digital future, building upon the success of the past and its vitality in the present. This is true in the mainframe world, where COBOL prevails, and in distributed environments where it has a greater usage than most realize.
Establishing a working group of COBOL thought leaders and exponents that aims to address misunderstanding about the technology and promote its continued usage, learning and discourse
Goals of the WG are:
- Greatly increase COBOL’s exposure to the public, specifically the IT decision-makers who will directly affect how widely COBOL will be employed in the future;
- Clearly describe why COBOL should return to the general college curriculum;
- Gather data and promote COBOL’s importance to the global economy;
- Provide avenues by which those seeking COBOL skills can acquire them.
- Establish a group of thought leaders and key persons in this space to act as global proponents and commentators on the language and its enduring value.
Non-goals of the WG are:
- Develop a vendor or platform specific perspective of COBOL.
- Develop a preference for one platform over another.
The TAC member sponsor of this working group is Len Santalucia.
Near term: an industry-wide roundtable with thought leaders in the COBOL space. Curricula for high schools, colleges, and universities for teaching COBOL.
This WG communicates on the following channels:
- https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/wg-cobol
- https://app.slack.com/client/T1BAJVCTY/C01549LK4F8
- https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/cobol/
This WG meets the fourth Thursday of every month.
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97677598233
N/A for the foreseeable future.
Meeting recordings and notes are in the meetings folder